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While these attractions justify making the Grille a typical college bar, worthy of undergraduate attention and patronage, they fail to explain the dominating role the Grille enjoys in the lives of Harvard students. A close look at a typical Grille night really calls into question how it can reign so long as king of Harvard social spots, unchallenged by surrounding competitors...
Republicans may also be vulnerable if they fail to deliver on promises to make business share the pain of budget balancing by hitting farm subsidies and corporate welfare. In the House Agriculture Committee, G.O.P. unity broke down, for instance, during an attempt last week to reduce farm-subsidy payments. A bill strongly promoted by chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas was defeated when Democratic opponents were joined by four Republicans from cotton-growing districts where agribusiness has taken in $4.6 billion in agriwelfare over the past 10 years...
...head of the company approached psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate weakness that they are helpless to overcome. And that confidence in their power to effect change is self-reinforcing. Seligman tracked 15,000 new workers who had taken two tests. One was the company's regular screening exam, the other Seligman's test measuring their levels of optimism. Among...
There is an escape hatch in the House proposal: a fail-safe provision stipulating that if annual expenses exceed the budget, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be required to get the money out of the fees paid to doctors and hospitals. That is fine if the difference is small. But if it runs into the tens of billions, this week's effort to fill in the blanks will seem pointless...
This goal can be achieved through a "tough love" approach to reform that places the long term interests of society first. Otherwise, all future efforts to end poverty in America are bound to fail...